Jina Ko, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory MedicinePerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Contact Information422 Curie Blvd
Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4283
Email: Jina.Ko@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Specialty Division
Cancer and Immunobiology
Research Expertise
Medical Diagnostics, Droplet Microfludiics, Biomarker Discovery, Microfabrication
Itmat Expertise
Next Generation Tools for Medical Diagnostic
Single Extracellular Vesicle Analysis
Biomarker Discovery for Neurological Disorders
Education
B.S. Rice University, 2013
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2018
Specialty Certification
Postgraduate Training
Schmidt Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 2018-2020
Instructor, NIH NCI K99/R00 Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 2021-2022
Awards and Honors
President’s Honor Roll, Rice University, 2010
Pi Delta Phi: National French Honor Society, 2011
Research Scholarship, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de St-Étienne, 2012
Singh Center for Nanotechnology Annual User Meeting, 1st Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
Bioengineering Graduate Group Symposium, 3rd Prize,
University of Pennsylvania, 2016
Lab on a Chip Widmer Award Winner, MicroTAS, 2017
Sol Pollack Award (Best thesis of the year), University of Pennsylvania, 2018
Schmidt Science Fellows, in Partnership with the Rhodes Trust, 2018
Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship, 2018
MicroTAS 2019 Travel Grant, 2019
ISEV2020 Young Investigator Scholarship, 2020
Rising Stars in Engineering in Health at Columbia University, 2020
NIH K99/R00 NCI Pathway to Independence Award (Impact score: 10), 2021-2026
Presidents Award for Excellence at CYTO, 2022
NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2), 2023
KBMES Young Investigator Award, 2024
Memberships and Professional Organizations
National Institute of Health, 2023 - 2023
University of Pennsylvania, 2023 - Present
National Institute of Health, 2023 - 2023
University of Pennsylvania, 2024 - Present
National Institute of Health, 2024 - 2024
Web Links
Selected Publications
Squeezable Hydrogel Microparticles for Single Extracellular Vesicle Protein Profiling
Y. Roh*, RT. Morales*, E. Huynh, U. Chintapula, D.E. Reynolds, R.J. Agosto Nieves, D. Oh, A.J. Seiner, J. Lim, C. B. Rodell, J. Ko, Small, 2024
Live Organoid Cyclic Imaging
D.E. Reynolds, Y. Sun, X. Wang, P. Vallapureddy, J. Lim, M. Pan, A. Fernadez Del Castillo, J. C. T. Carlson, M. A. Sellmyer, M. Nasrallah, Z. Binder, D. M. O’Rourke, G. Ming, H. Song, J. Ko, Advanced Science, 2024
Increasing Cell Therapeutic Potential by Selecting Cells with High Extracellular Vesicle Secretion
D. Koo, X. Cheng, S. Udani, D. Zhu, J. Li, B. Hall, N. Tsubamoto, J. Ko, K. Cheng, D. Di Carlo, Nature Communications, 2024
A Versatile Microchannel Array Device for Portable and Parallel Droplet Generation
Z. Tang, D.E. Reynolds, C. Lv, D. Zhang, J. Ko, Y. Wang, Small Science, 2024
Droplet and Digital Microfluidics: Ideation to Implementation
D.E. Reynolds, J. Lim, Y. Roh, U. Chintapula, RT. Morales, D. Oh, J. Ko, Elsevier, 2024
Anti-cancer bioactivity of sweet basil leaf derived extracellular vesicles on pancreatic cancer cells
U. Chintapula, D. Oh, C. Perez, S. Davis, J. Ko, Journal of Extracellular Biology, 2024
Single Extracellular Vesicle Analysis using Droplet Microfluidics
D.E. Reynolds, G. Galanis, J. Ko, Methods Mol Biol, Springer Nature, 2023
Patient-Derived Melanoma Organoid Models Facilitate the Assessment of Immunotherapies
L. Ou, S. Liu, H. Wang, Y. Guo, L. Guan, L. Shen, R. Luo, D. Elder, A. Huang, G. Karakousis, J. Miura, T. Mitchell, L. Schuchter, R. Amaravadi, A. Flowers, H. Mou, Y. Fan, W. Guo, J. Ko, Q. Chen, B. Tian, M. Herlyn, X. Xu, eBiomedicine, 2023
Single-cell and spatially resolved omics: Advances and Limitations
J. Chen, J. Ko, Y. Wang, Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2023
Highly Parallel, Wash-free, and Ultrasensitive Centrifugal Droplet Digital Protein Detection in Sub-Microliter Blood
Z. Tang, F. Lv, D.E. Reynolds, S. Zhang, S. Zheng, D. Zhang, J. Ko, Y, Chen, Y. Wang, Lab on a Chip, 2023
